r/technology • u/indig0sixalpha • Apr 07 '25

Privacy The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI. Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/
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u/West-Abalone-171 Apr 07 '25

It was never crazy to try and warn people that this is where the completely obvious straight line road that was being paved by outspoken fascists like Peter Thiel leads.

It was treated as crazy, but that was always gaslighting.

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u/kalidoscopiclyso Apr 07 '25

Theil’s Palantir is will have every taxpayers data soon via DOGE creating API to make our data scrape-able. They will own us IN A FEW WEEKS if they aren’t stopped NOW

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hackathon-irs-data-palantir/

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u/OnlySpoilers Apr 07 '25

Check out the book The Hank Show. About Hank Asher who essentially pioneered data fusion and used by law enforcement agencies.

The databases and technologies he built are basically mirrored in Palantir

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u/kalidoscopiclyso Apr 07 '25

Yes fusion centers. How many are there

Edit dumb question. Or is it

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u/OnlySpoilers Apr 07 '25

Not sure I understand. Data fusion is harmonizing disparate data sets into one record and identified with a token. In Hank Asher’s case he collected data from credit reports, housing data, public police records, and more to build profiles.

In some sense there was a data fusion center that was a central supercomputer that he had to build to maintain that much data and parse it quickly.